Thiago Amaral spent years working in UAV operations, understanding and exploring the drone data capture market for asset management, before he ever pointed a drone at a heritage building. Somewhere in that mix, one question kept coming back to him: why does so much of what makes a place worth remembering exist only as a handful of old photographs, or nothing at all?
Born in Brazil, he moved to New Zealand in 2016, and the country's landscapes and history pulled him in almost immediately. His background is in IT and, later, UAV operations, work that eventually took him across asset management and data capture projects in New Zealand and the UAE.
Clark House, in Hobsonville, was his first answer to that question. A Heritage New Zealand Category 1 listed building, documented in full, permanent, photorealistic 3D, and made freely available to anyone who wants to explore it. That's what Tohu Heritage keeps building toward, one heritage place at a time.
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